Lamp, Whale-Oil

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Lamp, Whale-Oil

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1835-1840

DimensionsH (with burner): 9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm); Base W: 2 17/32 in. (6.4 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.92

Not on View

DescriptionFont blown and finished by tooling. Joined by a multiribbed knop to the base. Base pressed in a female mold, probably of four vertical sections, by a plain male plunger of square cross section, tapered and stepped, that formed the hollow interior and undersurface of the base. Pewter collar machined and threaded, with double-wick pewter-and-tin burner for whale oil.

Published ReferencesWilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 333, no. 414.